Can you identify this plant please

[Mick.Dk]

Darrel............🙂..........it's a wrap !!

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

Darrel............🙂..........it's a wrap !!

I can manage these sorts of questions.

I've got a degree in "Botany", sadly something that no UK university now offers it as a subject.

cheers Darrel

 

[G H Nelson]

Outrageous damn disgrace!
Outrageous! Outrageous! Outrageous !
hoggie

 

[Mick.Dk]

Hi all, I can manage these sorts of questions.

I've got a degree in "Botany", sadly something that no UK university now offers it as a subject.

cheers Darrel

- plants don't have big, brown eyes, calling for empathy, my friend.............and only a few of us actually pet out be-leafed companions on a daily basis 🙂🙂

Sorry, this thread is coming off track !!

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

- plants don't have big, brown eyes, calling for empathy, my friend.............and only a few of us actually pet out be-leafed companions on a daily basis

Yes, you can still do a degree in Zoology, but plants are a lot less popular.

<"https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rh...2/January-2012/Death-knell-for-botany-degrees">

Cheers Darrel

 

[parotet]

Hi all,
Yes, you can still do a degree in Zoology, but plants are a lot less popular.

<"https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rh...2/January-2012/Death-knell-for-botany-degrees">

Cheers Darrel

Sad but true... Same thing at our universities in Spain. Another indicator: I used to buy all the new volumes of Flora Iberica, the definitive reference for Spanish flora identification but sadly new volumes won't be printed (available online) and I doubt it will be finished some day (not to mention what will happen with Fauna Iberica... This won't be finished for sure, and the first volumes already need updating). For regional floras it is even worse, botanists do have to self-publish and fund (crowdfunding) their own identification guides.

As Mick mentions it is really a problem that plants do not have big eyes calling for empathy. This is a classic problem we face everyday when preparing new conservation projects at the Conservation Trust/Foundation where I work... It may sound weird but it is much easier to find funds for conservation projects if you are working with animals even if some plants or habitats are much more endangered. Find yourself a good teddy bear and it will be much easier to get public and private funds...

Jordi

(Sorry, more off-topic)

 

[naughtymoose]

This is a disgrace! Send a Gunboat! etc etc!

I was looking at my 'Handbook of Horticultural Studies' (Peter Dawson) when I questioned about the 'bulb'.

My particular interest was tropical plants; now, it is more 'plants for UK wildlife'

 

[Frenchi]

Hi
This is the flower from the above plant there was 2 but the other hit my tube and burned



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[Jane of Upton]

Hi all,I can do this one.

A true bulb consists of a very short stem (usually just basal plate) with swollen leaf bases acting as the storage organ.
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The bulb can be "tunicate", with the outer leaf bases forming a dry papery covering (like an Onion, pictured), or just loose scales like a Lily or Fritillary.

All the other structures structures which aren't true "bulbs" are modified thickened stems or roots. These include corms, tubers, rhizomes and pseudobulbs.

Potato is a stem tuber, Sweet potato a root tuber, orchids have pseudobulbs, and plants like Crocus a corm.

I think Aponogeton crispus forms a stem tuber, although if a stem tuber is elongated it becomes a "rhizome".

There is a really good description and pictures here: <"Pacific Bulb Society: Aponogeton">.

cheers Darrel

What a great guide, Darrel - thank you! And thank you for the link - that is great help.